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KBAs sales for the first six months of the year were up to 292m (E473.5m) from 240m.

BasysPrint will launch a version of its UV-Setter computer-to-conventional platesetter for newspapers at Ifra next month.

British Polythene Industries (BPI), which issued a profits warning earlier this year, has sold its flexibles business, comprising Britannia Packaging in Stoke-on-Trent and an undisclosed amount of...

Wallpaper hand-printer Cole & Son, which produced the paper for Lord Irvines apartments, has been sold for 3m

Essexs Progressive Printing, which called in receivers two weeks ago, has been saved from closure by H&R Corrugated.

Dorchester-based Henry Ling has spent 1.2m on two new Heidelberg Speedmasters to increase capacity by 25%.

Chesapeakes European speciality packaging business has acquired Glasgow-based Lithoprint.

Canon has cut back on printed marketing materials following the adoption of an Internet-based personalised document delivery system.

CPI is on the brink of strengthening its grip on the UK book printing market by acquiring Mackays of Chatham.

Mike Newbould has returned to York Direct as managing director, after leading a buyout of the firm he left in 1998.

Polestar sales and marketing director John Ashfield has dismissed rumours that the group had plans to close its Greaves gravure plant in Scarborough as scurrilous.

Adobe announced Photoshop 6.0, a major revamp of the imaging program, at Seybold this week.

Alden Press will be the UK beta site for Purup-Eskofots Dicon computer to conventional platesetter.

The future of Heidelbergs fledgling Consumables division HQ in France, which was established earlier this year, is in question.

KPMG and Moore Stephens Booth White have been appointed joint administrators of In-a-Flap Envelope Company Ltd after the Surrey firm was wound up at Londons High Court last week owing over 1m.